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j'rviit the ugusta s i tiiv 1 benton against mr polk ' i have heretofore shown that mr conelemned lhe proceedings for the n of texas to the u states un fylertreaty we have also shown thought the march to the rio va unwise and unnecessary and â€¢ be asserted lhat if lie had been con . would have advised to the con , ver the whigs however show . nr,-n.jtion to ihe war and his ill-con . t n in pposition to mr polks measures , ppmocrats tell us ibai the annexation r-jyjaswas not the cause of lhe war ji that such was mr benton's opinion tote his assertion that mr polk ,'./ ilo "'"' already madt to lus hand flu the 13ih ot last may mr benton ,| ihe citizens of st louis mis a puhlic meeting which had been ip for the purpose in ihat speech uf_e treaty of annexation was reject tnnexation in another form was . iited a resolution for ihe ad ; fexas as a slate passed the repn sentatives ; an additional rnative resolution was added in ite to appoint commissioners to ior admission and to conciliate j mexico and thereby pre tiinexation from bringing on war piring administration of mr tyler | the alternative from the hands president elect â€” hurried off the tion by a midnight messen unmed iin door of conciliation in , of mexico â€” and inflamed her n resentment to the highest de from ll time forth every thing loathed war between the two countries rhich broke out in the ensuing year mr 11 saitl this was the history of the loss and gai n of texas.and its consequence r,'l i urit ih remarked again : â€” the first great error was the annexa i . o 1842 and tiie manner in which it was conducteel ; lhat was the ih tyler administration and for uld unworthy purposes the se â€¢ ar error or worse than error was ih rejection of ihe senate.'s alternative in and despatch of ihe midnight t to texas wiih lhe absolute re of admission on the night of the il march 1845 thai also was ibe the tyler administration and in moment of its expiring existence â€¢ f ihese steps the treaty would ide in-tan war if il had been rati ':,(â€¢ senate the second made the i now tin great question is lo fin here ihen is mr benton's distinct de i a lo ihe origin and cause of i he lhe rejection of the senate's alter remilution and dispatch of the tues & i ins 1 hen made lhe war e now mark the following from ; s annual me'ssage in 1845 : in pursuance of the joint resolution ol _' for annexing texas io ihe uni ites rn preelecessor on llu id da ii 1845 elected lo submit the first ttdsfcond sections of that resolution to be republic of texas as an overture on ilie part of lhe luiied states lor her ad - a state into our union this i ipproi i ; and accordingly the . d'atfaires of the united states in las under instructions of the loih kÂ»rc i 845 presented these sections of lutions lor the acceptance of that h'-lll hen mr polk according to his own ited declaration approved lhe re 1 lhe senate's alternative resolu ' 'â€¢ bich mr benton says made the **'â– it was not loo late to undo what t)'ler had done lie sent off themes l**rintlii night ofthe 3d of march oik was installed into ollice on the i but so far from recalling the mes | -'â€¢ or transmitting different instruc r*5 mr polk tells us lhat he approved on which mr tyler had made bmructions were accordingly sent our b - laliaiies to make it known â€” according to mr benton mr polk "''-"?â– war at any rate he could have proved of and prevented the act by i Â» mr b.'s opinion it was brought i f is no escape from ihis ingenu â€¢ 1.v ton ure its powers in vain to a â– '*â– h mr benton is correct mr polk i eaf the enviable honor of piuiilmii ir csof the united slates and b t:*n ' i lnto an unnecessarv expensive h war w lt wp must ntpmipt a â– ^ provements â€” the most necessary usarul profitable of ali the works it ll s~"*'n order that every shilling â– ^ "* devoted to the waste and folly of h 0ni!l*,'t)iarv upon the civilization kj^l0|lÂ»lity0f,he age the worst â– ;,; sai(i franklin and it was said be b^vt Â» v|'0 " is better than the bv s'ia a'n some expe k is fact from ihe mexican con ht wim leave behind i a hpav-v i ui v in a great pens'on nt grea i . u ku ever had before the i â€¢'.." v'."'1 '"' sha 1 ior ha,f l f**da , w years of such experience l^tfne â€¢ he further esseintliat ban^ce ls Â°' skater account to ppÂ»Â»essthan an age of glory north american the ~ carolina watchman i bruner & james i ri , n ( keep a check upon all your editors 4 proprietors } rulers â€ž. ' . new series do this axd liberty is safr < gen i harrison ( number 10 of volume iy salisbury n c friday july 9 1847 a letter from lawrie todd ; or nisi ract incoherent and unconnected ideas â€” without plan order or arrange ment i was sitting mr printer in the cool of lhe day which at ihis season means 9 p ' m ; the wind had ceased the smoke was curling from my pipe and slowly wending its way in tracks toward the slurs â€” a full orb'd moon poured a stream of light on lhe smooth waters as gliding along thev kissed lhe rocks around lhe shores of hell gate 1 thought aboul a sea of glass min gled will lire thinks i to myself what a beautiful world we live in ihave heard doctors of law physic and divinity â€” yes ! of divinity call this a miserable world ihave heard the wealthy the healthy those that had enough and thosewho con \ trived having nothing of the sort on hand ! and labored day and night to make trou ble for themselves call this a miserable world â€” most miserable blockheads are ! ye all for aught that we can tell its lhe best world terrestial that ever god almighty made and 1 do believe it is for on every leaf and on every blade of grass you can read " god is love and i believe ihat america is the best country in this world and that the state of new york is the best state in america our city the best ii the state and st paul's church the best spot in our city â€” because it was there on the 25th of november 1783 that washington jay and hamil ton goal's lee morgan malcom put nam green and a host of revolutionary officers and poor soldiers assembled and gave thanks to the god of buttles and to god ihey ascribed their victory in 1778 some of these poor soldiers fol lowed washington from valley-forge in the jerseys to lhe hanks of the schuyl kill their enemies tracking their steps by the imprint of their bloody feet on the ice and snow their country was poor but she put ihem in such offices as was in bet gift lo enable ihem to keep soul and boelj together a little longer lu 1801 another king arose thai knew not joseph â€” tha knew not the wounded soldiers for tho principles of this king and of the mer whose him on tin throne we are al sovereigns its enough to be told tha aaron burr wassecond in command ; wel as soon as thomas was fairly fixed in thf throne of his kingdom be kicked ou washington's ragged army some having cork-legs and some wooden legs somi spring steel arms and some no arms from lhe war-office the post office ant every other ollice to make room for a se of sturdy beggars hungry growling bawl ing democrats â€” foreign retrogades ani some of ihem among lhe off-scouring o all ihings now commenced tin reign o terror of political swindling and public ollice defaulting tell me not to worship the man whe wrote the declaration of independence and liberty : practice is better than pre cept 1 have seen a brother ofthe same craft ; the declaration of independence all men are born with equal rights c was pined on his breast be held 'â€¢ pa i lie's rights of man in one hand and a cow skin n the oilier he was selling a man his wife and ihree children at vendue that was his bill of right's his magna cliarla his habeas corpus â€” enough it make the devil blush 1 never knew its match except when i saw the champions of freedom in paris cut off the heads ol some of the finest among their women because they preferred a white to a red nightcap l was thus they enforced the liberty of conscience and the freedom of the human mind french gallantry with a vengeance but to return to this miserable world falsely so called they are a set of miser able consummate sovereign fools who say so â€” we have every thing that a thank ful heart can wish for we have the bi ble the fountain of all useful knowledge ; we have libcrtij of conscience thank god he holds one end of the devil's chain we have a land actually flowing with milk and honey and goshen butter besides we can sit under our vine and newtown pippin frees where none can make us a f'raid ; we have as much civil liberty on our shoulders as we can well stagger un der we have an army of very disinter ested friends of the people who made presidents congress and assemblymen for us gratis while said congress and as semblymen mix sling drink julap play cards billiards and time-pins hold caucus laugh at the italian fiddlers and rope-dan cers and for all these corporal and men ial labours lhe former charge only six and the latter three dollars per diem ; thus liny comparatively serve us lot nought we have i large and fruitful laud enough to satisfy the wants of every thing that lives while three thousand miles of sail waler separate us from all the cutthroats of europe thus there is no one to hurt us or to make us afraid â€” no wonder ihen lhat being so supremely happy we should sit down and contrive the ways and means whereby to make ourselves superlatively miserable ; â€” we commenced with coir s pistols.then paixhan guns here the judge of all the earth interposed he who num bers the stars who counts the hairs on our head and notes the fall of a sparrow sent an angel of destruction perhaps lhe same which executed a similar commis sion among the assyrians to show proud nan dressed in a litile brief authority how small he was he blew wiih his breath â€” they were scattered ; this was given as a hint to our army of occupation men : being a praciical comment on the j adage â€” its a dangerous thing to play with lhe devil's firebrands and edge-tools but our vain men thinking themselves wise though horn as ignorant as the colt of a wild young jackass despised the warn ing ; and have turned our beautiful land into an aceldama â€” a field of blood â€” now in every collage palace and village is heard he voice of crying lamentalion and woe ; rachel weeping with her chil dren and refusing to be comforted ; be cause the husband who pressed them to lis breast and led them at his board lies murdered in the mexican chapparal by the highway on the step of her cot tage sits his mother desolate and a widow â€” is it not enough to all ye who pass hy ? i nursed him on this bosom and pressed him in my heart â€” but ye have murdered my boy â€” ye have given his flesh to the raven anc his beautiful limbs to the vulture and the cormorant to lacerate far behind in a gloomy brake of the road sits the maiden to whom he was be trothed ; a monument of despair on the rock of destruction : she is a maniac ! she saw his manly face gashed and scar red by the mexican lancer ;â€” she saw the heart where her image was shrined per forated by the leaden messenger of death ! â€” her reason forsook its throne ! and why all this misery death and de struction ? you answer : our sister re public owed us some dollars and cents on compound interest ; and feai ing'she had already learned from ourselves the arls of repudiation we seized her hy the throat saying pay me all thou owest or i'll deliver thee over lo the tormentors !" but she pour girl had nothing wherewith to pay ; for she like her own uncle sam honest man was surrounded in her white house and every other house by an host of right honorable swindlers custom house post-office war and stamp ollice defaulters our men of war now appealed lo the laws of judge lynch they pro cured an infernal machine which they christened an army of occupation ; hav ing placed it on the soil in dispute it sent forth an explosion from whence came war and fighting and every evil work â€” war to be just consists only in two words : ! go or come we went prepared with tools and instruments of death ; ihey came not to us we sat down on a field while we said : â€” " ifs*neither thine nor mine then what business had you there wiih force and arms 1 but they owe me money ! and so do many of those ri rh t honorable defaulters in new york and washington why not shoot them ? you do not shoot men when they take the benefit of the in solvent act why then do you shoot lhe insolvent mexican ? besides the freight and cartage of those infernal machines from buffalo to mexico costs more bv ten fold 40 or 50 percent more lhan they owe us and counting nothing for the widows and orphans we have made iheir name is legion nor for the murders lhat lie at our own door they like lhe hairs on our head cannot he numbered and this is the march of intellect and blood in the 19th century we are the men and wisdom will die with us and this is the age of refinement in murder and we are the very model re puhlic ; model indeed ! look on us ye tyrants of the earth â€” on our steamers fireships and human slaughter houses ; you set we can waste and deface the image of god in man as well as your selves yours grant thorburn sale of the late residence of joseph bona parte â€” the beautiful grounds and mansion he longing to t lie estate of the late joseph napo leon bonaparte ex-king of spain were on saturday sold at auction for lhe sum of 30,500 mr thomas richards of philadelphia was t he purchaser it is said lhat llie buildings alone cost over sou 000 i'he paintings sculpture furniture sold at niueh lower rales than was anticipated ; some articles having sold for half their value the pniiitin_;s brought 810 to 1,050 two lions and a fawn by reubens sold forthe largest sum " nativity of our sa viour bv raphael mengs brought 1,000 the portrait ot'a dog by hackels broughl 210 the picture of napoleon crossing the alps by david the proprietors refused lo put up unless lhe sum of 86 000 was bid for it as no per son present was willing to bid that sum it was passed and will be sent to europe â€” newark advertiser june 26 an argument for drinking â€” now i ax you fellers who's ihe b,*st citizen him lhat sup pniis government or him as doesn't ? why him as does in course we support govern ment every one as drinks supports government lhat is if he tickers al a license house every blessed drop of licker that he swollers lhar is laxed lo pay the salary of them ar grate officers such as mayors and coporalioners hie con stahuls presidents and custom-house gentle men spose we was to quit drinkin â€” whvguv prnment musl fail it couldn't help it no how that's the very rezun i diinks i don't like rog i mortally hue it if 1 follnred mv own inclination i'd ruther drink buttermilk or gin ger pop or deaiborn's sody water rut i lie its for the good of my country to set an exam ple of patriotism and rirchunus self-denial to die rizeii generation â€” straw sucker the dublin horticultural society has recenl iv offered an enormous premium and the edin burgh horticultural society another for a blue dahlia a stumper the following touch of the sublime was spouted forth by a western orator recent ly at a war meeting : men of blood ! friends of washington ! that old hoss gen jackson â€” i want your attention for lightning has burst upon us and jupiter has poured the ile of wrath down the greasy shanks of lhe mexicans thunder has broken loose and slipped its cable and the mighty valley of the mis sissippi reverberates with the thousand tongues hisses of santa anna and his smaller fatua that revolve around the be nighted and wooden leg pop-gun of mon tezuma citizens and sires of the bloody grounds upon which our lathers catawampously fought and bled and poured out their clar et free as ile to enrich the soil over which we now hover and watch wiih hyena eyes â€” let the catamount ofthe inner var mint loose and prepare the chessy cat of vengeance for the long-looked for dav has arrived ; the sun that lit king david and his host across the atlantic looks down upon the scenes and drops a tear to its memor but ho*es i am with you as , as the stars of uncle sam and the stripes of his country triumphantly wave m tn breeze whar i say whar is the lowliv ed chicken bred toad hoppin red-mouth mothers son of you who will not raise the beacon light of triumph smouse the citadel ofthe aggressor and press onward to liberty and glory '. whoop hurrah ! â€” where's lhe inemy ? fatal issue of a practical joke â€” the annexed article from a london magazine ought to operate as a caution to practical jokers : the sister of a medical man in london had in the presence of two young gentle men who were studying medicine with her brother ridiculed the weakness and folly by which some persons are governed â€” she said for her part she hail no super stitious fears anel had courage for any emergency which might happen the young men doubted the truth of her boast ings and one of them proposed tothe oth er that merely by way of joke they would put her courage to the test in a glass case in the doctor's study was a human skeleton this they removed and placed in the young lady's bed she retired at the usual hour and they stealthily follow ed her to listen some time elapsed and no sound was heard they were about descending the stairs thinking their jest had failed and that in reality she was as courageous as she had boasted herself to be scarcely had they come fo this con clusion ere their ears were assailed by a most appalling shriek ; after which all be came silent they retired pleased with their success anel thinking of the laugh and joke they should have with her in the morning at breakfast morning came but she did not come down as usual ; they suffered an hour or so to elapse anel her brother thinking she might have overslept herself knocked for admittance calling her by name at the same time xo answer being returned he and the young men forced her door and sad to relate there sat the poor girl playing with the bony fingers ofthe grim and appalling skeleton quite unconscious of the presence of the intruders there the poor girl sat a confirmed idiot for life when she gave that one fearful shriek her reason fled never to return it is needless to remark on the remorse that attended the after lives of the two young men welch sayings â€” there are three things that never become rusty the money of the benevolent the shoes of the butchers horse and a woman's tongue three things not easily done â€” fo allay thirst with fire fo dry wet with water to please all in every thing that is done three things that are good as best â€” brown bread in famine well water in thirst and a great coat in cold three things as good as their better â€” dir ty water to extinguish the fire an ugly wife to a blind man and a wooden sword to a cowartl three warnings from the grave â€” thou knowest what i was thou seest what i am remember what thou arf to be â€” three things of short continuance â€” a ladv's love a chip fire and a brook's flood three things that ought never be from home â€” the cat the chimney and the housewife three essentials to a false story-teller â€” a good memory a bold face and fools for an audience three things seen in the peacock â€” the garb of an an gel the walk of a thief and the voice of the devil three things it is unwise to boast of â€” the flavour of thy ale the beau ty of thy wife.and the contents of thy purse three miseries of a man's house â€” a smo key chimney a dripping roof and a scold ing wife melancholy casualty capt john paynor of dinwiddie coun tv va came to a sudden and painful death a few days ago he was unwell and went into the eitfice of his brother-in law di john a edwards to take a dose of quinine but by a most unhappy ac cident he mistook morphine for quinine swallowed it and in a few minutes was numbered with the dead rom ihe south carolina temperance advocate the razor strop man a brief history of we havem_cen favored with another and still more interesting epistle from this truly be nevolent man which we will give our readers i nest week no one in the humble walk of life has created half so much sensation as the famous " razor sir ,, man " what sort of a man s he ?" Â» he's a bun-bng ain't he r * where did he cine from ." 'â€¢ he's _ yaa kee ain't he ?" - he's a hard case i reckon ' " i hey say he's a keen fellow where can i see him Â» where does he hold forth ?"â€” â™¦ w bat does he talk about v â€¢ h w does he look the foregoing we believe mav serve as specimens ofthe many question and surmi ses of the populace wherever smith goes every body wants to see ihe <* raz.,r strop man and to hear more about him well ! we can't undertake in answer one half the que ries made but we will endeavor from lhe besi information to answer some oflbem and lir>t of all â€” we feel warranted in asser ting lhat he is no " humbug in any sense n ere he such we would not besitale to de nnunce him on lhe contrary he is a sensi ble modest and well-behaved man who un like humbugs pretends to be few than be real ly is hknky smith alias the razor strop man is an englishman by birtb aboul thirty-two years of age and certainly quite goc l-lookin enough for a respectable merchant as he seine times humorously styles himself l.e was horn tin i v,.ar 1815 mor ea h ciu of londo his original trade was that of a calico printer but .. seems he hud not h,*en long at lhe trade before be became f.,nd cf strong drink and to use bis own language - like all men brains he soon became a drunkard he was provide lially arrested in his downward career by the speech of a reformed inebriate named whita ker we think and soon became a good leeio taller it would amuse as well as instruct anv one to hear smith tell how he went to tbe meeling in a borrowed coat through the sleeves of which his anus stuck so far lhal he had to hide them in his pantaloons pocket we will describe the joyful sequel as nearly as as we can iu iii own quaint language : " w hen the meeting was o\er i lold mv wife i would try the pledge for one mouth i did and at the end of the month i found myself much more comfortable for when smith was a drunkard wife cried father cried mother cried john cried ann cried mary cried and teddy cried : bul i had been a temperance man only a mouth when wife sung father sung mother sung john sung ann sung mary sung teddy sung and i sum and i bought a frying-pan and i put it on the fire and put a good steal in it and that is lhe kind of sinking for a working man when he is hungry finding myself so much better i went and signed lhe pledge for life and i hope 1 shall hold on in jan . iry 1 i the man that i worked for wanted to lower my wage lhe same as he had done before many a lime when he knew men could not help themselves at this time we got only half what we used to get nine vears before and not s much work neither i made up my mind not to submit to tyranny any longer so i left for this country on the 18lh of janua ry 1842 when i landed and enquired for work i found it to be verv dull not half the cal ico factories employed well i thought i must look afier something else i teli in with a man who wanted a carver at a temperance if use in xew york ; i took the place and here i fell in with a man that sold razor strops ; he told me that i might get a first rate living selling his good strops so i took iwo dozen commenced selling in wall street knowing it lo be a great place for shaving for they au veiy near all brokers and i knew that brokers like osltare with ease ' \\ ho says i have nol done ri^ht ' every body was saving that limes were dull so i thought i must look out i'm woith a few thousands now i w.ui't say how many â€” fm able to do something for ihe unfortunate imt its all through temperance that i am what i am feat of a drunken alan â€” thrilling scene on thursday evening jusi before the steam boat jewess left annapolis a man evidently intoxicated was perceived clinging on the out side of the railing around the steeple of the slate house in that city soon as he was observed l>v the persons below his dangerous situation became the source of a most intense excitement alter climbing on top of the rail he stood upon his fe*_1.and walked nearly around with all the loose-jointedness of the inebriate at the same time gesticulating violently al those below â€” once or twice we really thought his halance gone but staggering back he con tinned hi.s perilous walk around the balustrade we held our breath until it.became painful and tried to look away but like the charmed l>iid under he serpent's eye we could not with all the contempt we feel tor the drunken reck less character of an individual who would thus expose himself the sight of a human being in such an awful situation was productive of feel ings whicli we do not wish lo experience again after staggering around some distance he fell on the inside baltimore sun humorous illustration a picture has been gotten up representing old zac with a huge wine glass in his hand with capt bragg pouring liberally inlo it from a bottle labelled madeira out of gen taylor's mouth proceeds a scroll on which is written â€” " a little more grape capt bragg ' blood moii'i a correspondent ofthe journal of commeice writing from mex ico says that gen scott has taken lhe guerilla business in hand " by his order every murder that the mexicans may com mit takes 8300 out of the nearest alcade's pocket although this may be rather hard on thf alcades it will induce them to ex ert their influence of which they possess some as a preventive of the evil adversity does not take from ns our true friends it only disperses those who pretended to be so an int-tdent op the battle n bl'bi after the batile i was ordered Â«! j een mpn to escort major ss wtthaflagoftrucetosa-ita anna when we arrived within about a hundred yards ot a regiment of liners which seemed to be the rear guard we halted major ttliss was blindfolded and conducted to santa anna on the departure ofthe major a platoon of lancers were ordered from lhe regiment and took post facing mv platoon and within ten steps of me the lieut enant in command dismounted his men did the same he was a fat good-look ing fellow ; wore a son of a nek coat neatly trimmed with lace and seemed qmte pompous as he dismounted he ban ned bis bridle rein to his orderlv and com menced strutting in front of his platoon m a very haughty manner presently he called bis orderly who handed from a pocket ib the side of his saddle a bottle from which he took a drink without sav ing a won to me much to mv astonish ment and commenced strutting as before 1 just then recollected 1 had in my holster a small bottle of whiskey and that it would not do to he outdone by this mexican : so i handed my rein to the right ti|e 0f my platoon and commenced playing the pea cock in front of my men in a lew min utes i halted short and ordered mv bu gler to hand me the bottle out of mv bols ter and took a drink curled my mustache and continued peacocking it as soon as my mexican friend saw tne imitating movements be walked laster â€” i increas ed my pace be halted and took a drink ; 1 lnhed and took a drink thus we per formed for some time until 1 actually blulled him off for he walked to lhe rear oi his platoon when 1 halted and sat down on the grass moorish ladies major xoah the veteran quill driver of the _\. v messenger gives the following rich reminiscence of his residence in al giers -. w hen in tunis i found myself in love with a handsome mussulman lady who lived on the opposite side of the street scarcely ten feet wide and who would draw aside the silken curtains from the iron bars of her window when unobserv ed to converse with me in lingua fran ca 1 talked of love â€” like all young fel lows of twenty-one â€” with an irrepressi ble ardor no ! no ! sidi said she â– if we were detected it would be nothing for you â€” you would only lose your head but j should have my luce unveiled be made to ride backwards on a mule tied in a sack and thrown into the sea my ardor fell like a barometer in a squall ; and the jittle value she bestowed on my head â€” contrasted with her disgrace did not increase my affection she said what was true it is the inevitable punish ment of being delected in an intrigue with these barbarians lt is rather dangerous then-fore to inquire of a man after his wife's health this wretched life how ever ol the female of barbary creates a teelingol melancholy and makesher prone to the tender passion this melancholy never leaves ber she seldom smiles her husband takes her to his country house has music dancing and festivities to en liven her â€” she is still the same taciturn and melancholy creature we sometimes j.j.y an othcrvi ise hand some woman who has unweildy propor tions and give way for l;rr in the omnibus reluctantly but in barbary she would cany oil the palm tin more fatness the greater beauty as a wife â€” and therefore tender mothers begin at nn early age lo fatten their daughters they allow them very little exercise compel them to eat very rich substances little paste balls dip ped in oil and every kind of food calcu lated to produce obesity tin result is that the lady who requires a camel tocar ry her is the first on the li-t let a pa cha with three tails walk down through a lineol christian aud mussulman beauties be will pass by with indiflcrence the light graceful and sylphlike forms which with us are so attractive and s*op with admi ration in front of a lady weighing some three iiandred pounds smack his lips and exclaim ' met lulu esseri this is rich a millionaire in paris â€” immense wealth the xew york impress gives tbe following statement in relation to lhe wed known war quis daligre who died at paris lately in the 83 j year of his age from his large in vestments in this countiy bis death has caused ij'iite a stir in wall street it appears that some eight or ten years ago the marquis deposited i the new york life insurance the faimer trust and ohio trust nearly a hundred thousand dollars each and took out an annuity during his life irom which he realized the following sums annually viz : from the n t life ins & trust 11,600 â– â€¢ â– â€¢ farmer trust 13.600 " " ohio trust o.ooo " â€¢* pennsylvania an^pjty 10.100 Â« Â» gerard life - 600 849,200 one half ol this sum amounting to nfl^rly fifty thousand dollars in all he has received se mi-annuallv and lhe conditions were thai at his decea.-e the whole sum originally paid shall revert to the companies tbe companies are at his deceased relieved n..t only from lhe an nual payment of a large sum bul have real.z ed a great profit the farmer's i ru-t have after calculating interest received i weniy-fiw ihonsand dollar be new yo.k life and m forty-six ihousaiui dollars and other p*Â»m in proportion the marqu.s was a man ofn i.l hia inc lie as owr a mil mense wealth ih "" " â– lion of franrs annually he leaves over sixty i u'.n'-s in real estate ; and he bulk â€ž? h-mnie to a grandchild only n.neteen l,(ll,oid he lived by rule and ea and znk by weight and measure and regula led ksconduc-by the nicest exactaess ii , cula-.d to live till be was a hundred and h v nd it he had would probably have bro ke-.-hecoinpanies that had ranted be an lies wealth is power

j'rviit the ugusta s i tiiv 1 benton against mr polk ' i have heretofore shown that mr conelemned lhe proceedings for the n of texas to the u states un fylertreaty we have also shown thought the march to the rio va unwise and unnecessary and â€¢ be asserted lhat if lie had been con . would have advised to the con , ver the whigs however show . nr,-n.jtion to ihe war and his ill-con . t n in pposition to mr polks measures , ppmocrats tell us ibai the annexation r-jyjaswas not the cause of lhe war ji that such was mr benton's opinion tote his assertion that mr polk ,'./ ilo "'"' already madt to lus hand flu the 13ih ot last may mr benton ,| ihe citizens of st louis mis a puhlic meeting which had been ip for the purpose in ihat speech uf_e treaty of annexation was reject tnnexation in another form was . iited a resolution for ihe ad ; fexas as a slate passed the repn sentatives ; an additional rnative resolution was added in ite to appoint commissioners to ior admission and to conciliate j mexico and thereby pre tiinexation from bringing on war piring administration of mr tyler | the alternative from the hands president elect â€” hurried off the tion by a midnight messen unmed iin door of conciliation in , of mexico â€” and inflamed her n resentment to the highest de from ll time forth every thing loathed war between the two countries rhich broke out in the ensuing year mr 11 saitl this was the history of the loss and gai n of texas.and its consequence r,'l i urit ih remarked again : â€” the first great error was the annexa i . o 1842 and tiie manner in which it was conducteel ; lhat was the ih tyler administration and for uld unworthy purposes the se â€¢ ar error or worse than error was ih rejection of ihe senate.'s alternative in and despatch of ihe midnight t to texas wiih lhe absolute re of admission on the night of the il march 1845 thai also was ibe the tyler administration and in moment of its expiring existence â€¢ f ihese steps the treaty would ide in-tan war if il had been rati ':,(â€¢ senate the second made the i now tin great question is lo fin here ihen is mr benton's distinct de i a lo ihe origin and cause of i he lhe rejection of the senate's alter remilution and dispatch of the tues & i ins 1 hen made lhe war e now mark the following from ; s annual me'ssage in 1845 : in pursuance of the joint resolution ol _' for annexing texas io ihe uni ites rn preelecessor on llu id da ii 1845 elected lo submit the first ttdsfcond sections of that resolution to be republic of texas as an overture on ilie part of lhe luiied states lor her ad - a state into our union this i ipproi i ; and accordingly the . d'atfaires of the united states in las under instructions of the loih kÂ»rc i 845 presented these sections of lutions lor the acceptance of that h'-lll hen mr polk according to his own ited declaration approved lhe re 1 lhe senate's alternative resolu ' 'â€¢ bich mr benton says made the **'â– it was not loo late to undo what t)'ler had done lie sent off themes l**rintlii night ofthe 3d of march oik was installed into ollice on the i but so far from recalling the mes | -'â€¢ or transmitting different instruc r*5 mr polk tells us lhat he approved on which mr tyler had made bmructions were accordingly sent our b - laliaiies to make it known â€” according to mr benton mr polk "''-"?â– war at any rate he could have proved of and prevented the act by i Â» mr b.'s opinion it was brought i f is no escape from ihis ingenu â€¢ 1.v ton ure its powers in vain to a â– '*â– h mr benton is correct mr polk i eaf the enviable honor of piuiilmii ir csof the united slates and b t:*n ' i lnto an unnecessarv expensive h war w lt wp must ntpmipt a â– ^ provements â€” the most necessary usarul profitable of ali the works it ll s~"*'n order that every shilling â– ^ "* devoted to the waste and folly of h 0ni!l*,'t)iarv upon the civilization kj^l0|lÂ»lity0f,he age the worst â– ;,; sai(i franklin and it was said be b^vt Â» v|'0 " is better than the bv s'ia a'n some expe k is fact from ihe mexican con ht wim leave behind i a hpav-v i ui v in a great pens'on nt grea i . u ku ever had before the i â€¢'.." v'."'1 '"' sha 1 ior ha,f l f**da , w years of such experience l^tfne â€¢ he further esseintliat ban^ce ls Â°' skater account to ppÂ»Â»essthan an age of glory north american the ~ carolina watchman i bruner & james i ri , n ( keep a check upon all your editors 4 proprietors } rulers â€ž. ' . new series do this axd liberty is safr < gen i harrison ( number 10 of volume iy salisbury n c friday july 9 1847 a letter from lawrie todd ; or nisi ract incoherent and unconnected ideas â€” without plan order or arrange ment i was sitting mr printer in the cool of lhe day which at ihis season means 9 p ' m ; the wind had ceased the smoke was curling from my pipe and slowly wending its way in tracks toward the slurs â€” a full orb'd moon poured a stream of light on lhe smooth waters as gliding along thev kissed lhe rocks around lhe shores of hell gate 1 thought aboul a sea of glass min gled will lire thinks i to myself what a beautiful world we live in ihave heard doctors of law physic and divinity â€” yes ! of divinity call this a miserable world ihave heard the wealthy the healthy those that had enough and thosewho con \ trived having nothing of the sort on hand ! and labored day and night to make trou ble for themselves call this a miserable world â€” most miserable blockheads are ! ye all for aught that we can tell its lhe best world terrestial that ever god almighty made and 1 do believe it is for on every leaf and on every blade of grass you can read " god is love and i believe ihat america is the best country in this world and that the state of new york is the best state in america our city the best ii the state and st paul's church the best spot in our city â€” because it was there on the 25th of november 1783 that washington jay and hamil ton goal's lee morgan malcom put nam green and a host of revolutionary officers and poor soldiers assembled and gave thanks to the god of buttles and to god ihey ascribed their victory in 1778 some of these poor soldiers fol lowed washington from valley-forge in the jerseys to lhe hanks of the schuyl kill their enemies tracking their steps by the imprint of their bloody feet on the ice and snow their country was poor but she put ihem in such offices as was in bet gift lo enable ihem to keep soul and boelj together a little longer lu 1801 another king arose thai knew not joseph â€” tha knew not the wounded soldiers for tho principles of this king and of the mer whose him on tin throne we are al sovereigns its enough to be told tha aaron burr wassecond in command ; wel as soon as thomas was fairly fixed in thf throne of his kingdom be kicked ou washington's ragged army some having cork-legs and some wooden legs somi spring steel arms and some no arms from lhe war-office the post office ant every other ollice to make room for a se of sturdy beggars hungry growling bawl ing democrats â€” foreign retrogades ani some of ihem among lhe off-scouring o all ihings now commenced tin reign o terror of political swindling and public ollice defaulting tell me not to worship the man whe wrote the declaration of independence and liberty : practice is better than pre cept 1 have seen a brother ofthe same craft ; the declaration of independence all men are born with equal rights c was pined on his breast be held 'â€¢ pa i lie's rights of man in one hand and a cow skin n the oilier he was selling a man his wife and ihree children at vendue that was his bill of right's his magna cliarla his habeas corpus â€” enough it make the devil blush 1 never knew its match except when i saw the champions of freedom in paris cut off the heads ol some of the finest among their women because they preferred a white to a red nightcap l was thus they enforced the liberty of conscience and the freedom of the human mind french gallantry with a vengeance but to return to this miserable world falsely so called they are a set of miser able consummate sovereign fools who say so â€” we have every thing that a thank ful heart can wish for we have the bi ble the fountain of all useful knowledge ; we have libcrtij of conscience thank god he holds one end of the devil's chain we have a land actually flowing with milk and honey and goshen butter besides we can sit under our vine and newtown pippin frees where none can make us a f'raid ; we have as much civil liberty on our shoulders as we can well stagger un der we have an army of very disinter ested friends of the people who made presidents congress and assemblymen for us gratis while said congress and as semblymen mix sling drink julap play cards billiards and time-pins hold caucus laugh at the italian fiddlers and rope-dan cers and for all these corporal and men ial labours lhe former charge only six and the latter three dollars per diem ; thus liny comparatively serve us lot nought we have i large and fruitful laud enough to satisfy the wants of every thing that lives while three thousand miles of sail waler separate us from all the cutthroats of europe thus there is no one to hurt us or to make us afraid â€” no wonder ihen lhat being so supremely happy we should sit down and contrive the ways and means whereby to make ourselves superlatively miserable ; â€” we commenced with coir s pistols.then paixhan guns here the judge of all the earth interposed he who num bers the stars who counts the hairs on our head and notes the fall of a sparrow sent an angel of destruction perhaps lhe same which executed a similar commis sion among the assyrians to show proud nan dressed in a litile brief authority how small he was he blew wiih his breath â€” they were scattered ; this was given as a hint to our army of occupation men : being a praciical comment on the j adage â€” its a dangerous thing to play with lhe devil's firebrands and edge-tools but our vain men thinking themselves wise though horn as ignorant as the colt of a wild young jackass despised the warn ing ; and have turned our beautiful land into an aceldama â€” a field of blood â€” now in every collage palace and village is heard he voice of crying lamentalion and woe ; rachel weeping with her chil dren and refusing to be comforted ; be cause the husband who pressed them to lis breast and led them at his board lies murdered in the mexican chapparal by the highway on the step of her cot tage sits his mother desolate and a widow â€” is it not enough to all ye who pass hy ? i nursed him on this bosom and pressed him in my heart â€” but ye have murdered my boy â€” ye have given his flesh to the raven anc his beautiful limbs to the vulture and the cormorant to lacerate far behind in a gloomy brake of the road sits the maiden to whom he was be trothed ; a monument of despair on the rock of destruction : she is a maniac ! she saw his manly face gashed and scar red by the mexican lancer ;â€” she saw the heart where her image was shrined per forated by the leaden messenger of death ! â€” her reason forsook its throne ! and why all this misery death and de struction ? you answer : our sister re public owed us some dollars and cents on compound interest ; and feai ing'she had already learned from ourselves the arls of repudiation we seized her hy the throat saying pay me all thou owest or i'll deliver thee over lo the tormentors !" but she pour girl had nothing wherewith to pay ; for she like her own uncle sam honest man was surrounded in her white house and every other house by an host of right honorable swindlers custom house post-office war and stamp ollice defaulters our men of war now appealed lo the laws of judge lynch they pro cured an infernal machine which they christened an army of occupation ; hav ing placed it on the soil in dispute it sent forth an explosion from whence came war and fighting and every evil work â€” war to be just consists only in two words : ! go or come we went prepared with tools and instruments of death ; ihey came not to us we sat down on a field while we said : â€” " ifs*neither thine nor mine then what business had you there wiih force and arms 1 but they owe me money ! and so do many of those ri rh t honorable defaulters in new york and washington why not shoot them ? you do not shoot men when they take the benefit of the in solvent act why then do you shoot lhe insolvent mexican ? besides the freight and cartage of those infernal machines from buffalo to mexico costs more bv ten fold 40 or 50 percent more lhan they owe us and counting nothing for the widows and orphans we have made iheir name is legion nor for the murders lhat lie at our own door they like lhe hairs on our head cannot he numbered and this is the march of intellect and blood in the 19th century we are the men and wisdom will die with us and this is the age of refinement in murder and we are the very model re puhlic ; model indeed ! look on us ye tyrants of the earth â€” on our steamers fireships and human slaughter houses ; you set we can waste and deface the image of god in man as well as your selves yours grant thorburn sale of the late residence of joseph bona parte â€” the beautiful grounds and mansion he longing to t lie estate of the late joseph napo leon bonaparte ex-king of spain were on saturday sold at auction for lhe sum of 30,500 mr thomas richards of philadelphia was t he purchaser it is said lhat llie buildings alone cost over sou 000 i'he paintings sculpture furniture sold at niueh lower rales than was anticipated ; some articles having sold for half their value the pniiitin_;s brought 810 to 1,050 two lions and a fawn by reubens sold forthe largest sum " nativity of our sa viour bv raphael mengs brought 1,000 the portrait ot'a dog by hackels broughl 210 the picture of napoleon crossing the alps by david the proprietors refused lo put up unless lhe sum of 86 000 was bid for it as no per son present was willing to bid that sum it was passed and will be sent to europe â€” newark advertiser june 26 an argument for drinking â€” now i ax you fellers who's ihe b,*st citizen him lhat sup pniis government or him as doesn't ? why him as does in course we support govern ment every one as drinks supports government lhat is if he tickers al a license house every blessed drop of licker that he swollers lhar is laxed lo pay the salary of them ar grate officers such as mayors and coporalioners hie con stahuls presidents and custom-house gentle men spose we was to quit drinkin â€” whvguv prnment musl fail it couldn't help it no how that's the very rezun i diinks i don't like rog i mortally hue it if 1 follnred mv own inclination i'd ruther drink buttermilk or gin ger pop or deaiborn's sody water rut i lie its for the good of my country to set an exam ple of patriotism and rirchunus self-denial to die rizeii generation â€” straw sucker the dublin horticultural society has recenl iv offered an enormous premium and the edin burgh horticultural society another for a blue dahlia a stumper the following touch of the sublime was spouted forth by a western orator recent ly at a war meeting : men of blood ! friends of washington ! that old hoss gen jackson â€” i want your attention for lightning has burst upon us and jupiter has poured the ile of wrath down the greasy shanks of lhe mexicans thunder has broken loose and slipped its cable and the mighty valley of the mis sissippi reverberates with the thousand tongues hisses of santa anna and his smaller fatua that revolve around the be nighted and wooden leg pop-gun of mon tezuma citizens and sires of the bloody grounds upon which our lathers catawampously fought and bled and poured out their clar et free as ile to enrich the soil over which we now hover and watch wiih hyena eyes â€” let the catamount ofthe inner var mint loose and prepare the chessy cat of vengeance for the long-looked for dav has arrived ; the sun that lit king david and his host across the atlantic looks down upon the scenes and drops a tear to its memor but ho*es i am with you as , as the stars of uncle sam and the stripes of his country triumphantly wave m tn breeze whar i say whar is the lowliv ed chicken bred toad hoppin red-mouth mothers son of you who will not raise the beacon light of triumph smouse the citadel ofthe aggressor and press onward to liberty and glory '. whoop hurrah ! â€” where's lhe inemy ? fatal issue of a practical joke â€” the annexed article from a london magazine ought to operate as a caution to practical jokers : the sister of a medical man in london had in the presence of two young gentle men who were studying medicine with her brother ridiculed the weakness and folly by which some persons are governed â€” she said for her part she hail no super stitious fears anel had courage for any emergency which might happen the young men doubted the truth of her boast ings and one of them proposed tothe oth er that merely by way of joke they would put her courage to the test in a glass case in the doctor's study was a human skeleton this they removed and placed in the young lady's bed she retired at the usual hour and they stealthily follow ed her to listen some time elapsed and no sound was heard they were about descending the stairs thinking their jest had failed and that in reality she was as courageous as she had boasted herself to be scarcely had they come fo this con clusion ere their ears were assailed by a most appalling shriek ; after which all be came silent they retired pleased with their success anel thinking of the laugh and joke they should have with her in the morning at breakfast morning came but she did not come down as usual ; they suffered an hour or so to elapse anel her brother thinking she might have overslept herself knocked for admittance calling her by name at the same time xo answer being returned he and the young men forced her door and sad to relate there sat the poor girl playing with the bony fingers ofthe grim and appalling skeleton quite unconscious of the presence of the intruders there the poor girl sat a confirmed idiot for life when she gave that one fearful shriek her reason fled never to return it is needless to remark on the remorse that attended the after lives of the two young men welch sayings â€” there are three things that never become rusty the money of the benevolent the shoes of the butchers horse and a woman's tongue three things not easily done â€” fo allay thirst with fire fo dry wet with water to please all in every thing that is done three things that are good as best â€” brown bread in famine well water in thirst and a great coat in cold three things as good as their better â€” dir ty water to extinguish the fire an ugly wife to a blind man and a wooden sword to a cowartl three warnings from the grave â€” thou knowest what i was thou seest what i am remember what thou arf to be â€” three things of short continuance â€” a ladv's love a chip fire and a brook's flood three things that ought never be from home â€” the cat the chimney and the housewife three essentials to a false story-teller â€” a good memory a bold face and fools for an audience three things seen in the peacock â€” the garb of an an gel the walk of a thief and the voice of the devil three things it is unwise to boast of â€” the flavour of thy ale the beau ty of thy wife.and the contents of thy purse three miseries of a man's house â€” a smo key chimney a dripping roof and a scold ing wife melancholy casualty capt john paynor of dinwiddie coun tv va came to a sudden and painful death a few days ago he was unwell and went into the eitfice of his brother-in law di john a edwards to take a dose of quinine but by a most unhappy ac cident he mistook morphine for quinine swallowed it and in a few minutes was numbered with the dead rom ihe south carolina temperance advocate the razor strop man a brief history of we havem_cen favored with another and still more interesting epistle from this truly be nevolent man which we will give our readers i nest week no one in the humble walk of life has created half so much sensation as the famous " razor sir ,, man " what sort of a man s he ?" Â» he's a bun-bng ain't he r * where did he cine from ." 'â€¢ he's _ yaa kee ain't he ?" - he's a hard case i reckon ' " i hey say he's a keen fellow where can i see him Â» where does he hold forth ?"â€” â™¦ w bat does he talk about v â€¢ h w does he look the foregoing we believe mav serve as specimens ofthe many question and surmi ses of the populace wherever smith goes every body wants to see ihe t of all â€” we feel warranted in asser ting lhat he is no " humbug in any sense n ere he such we would not besitale to de nnunce him on lhe contrary he is a sensi ble modest and well-behaved man who un like humbugs pretends to be few than be real ly is hknky smith alias the razor strop man is an englishman by birtb aboul thirty-two years of age and certainly quite goc l-lookin enough for a respectable merchant as he seine times humorously styles himself l.e was horn tin i v,.ar 1815 mor ea h ciu of londo his original trade was that of a calico printer but .. seems he hud not h,*en long at lhe trade before be became f.,nd cf strong drink and to use bis own language - like all men brains he soon became a drunkard he was provide lially arrested in his downward career by the speech of a reformed inebriate named whita ker we think and soon became a good leeio taller it would amuse as well as instruct anv one to hear smith tell how he went to tbe meeling in a borrowed coat through the sleeves of which his anus stuck so far lhal he had to hide them in his pantaloons pocket we will describe the joyful sequel as nearly as as we can iu iii own quaint language : " w hen the meeting was o\er i lold mv wife i would try the pledge for one mouth i did and at the end of the month i found myself much more comfortable for when smith was a drunkard wife cried father cried mother cried john cried ann cried mary cried and teddy cried : bul i had been a temperance man only a mouth when wife sung father sung mother sung john sung ann sung mary sung teddy sung and i sum and i bought a frying-pan and i put it on the fire and put a good steal in it and that is lhe kind of sinking for a working man when he is hungry finding myself so much better i went and signed lhe pledge for life and i hope 1 shall hold on in jan . iry 1 i the man that i worked for wanted to lower my wage lhe same as he had done before many a lime when he knew men could not help themselves at this time we got only half what we used to get nine vears before and not s much work neither i made up my mind not to submit to tyranny any longer so i left for this country on the 18lh of janua ry 1842 when i landed and enquired for work i found it to be verv dull not half the cal ico factories employed well i thought i must look afier something else i teli in with a man who wanted a carver at a temperance if use in xew york ; i took the place and here i fell in with a man that sold razor strops ; he told me that i might get a first rate living selling his good strops so i took iwo dozen commenced selling in wall street knowing it lo be a great place for shaving for they au veiy near all brokers and i knew that brokers like osltare with ease ' \\ ho says i have nol done ri^ht ' every body was saving that limes were dull so i thought i must look out i'm woith a few thousands now i w.ui't say how many â€” fm able to do something for ihe unfortunate imt its all through temperance that i am what i am feat of a drunken alan â€” thrilling scene on thursday evening jusi before the steam boat jewess left annapolis a man evidently intoxicated was perceived clinging on the out side of the railing around the steeple of the slate house in that city soon as he was observed l>v the persons below his dangerous situation became the source of a most intense excitement alter climbing on top of the rail he stood upon his fe*_1.and walked nearly around with all the loose-jointedness of the inebriate at the same time gesticulating violently al those below â€” once or twice we really thought his halance gone but staggering back he con tinned hi.s perilous walk around the balustrade we held our breath until it.became painful and tried to look away but like the charmed l>iid under he serpent's eye we could not with all the contempt we feel tor the drunken reck less character of an individual who would thus expose himself the sight of a human being in such an awful situation was productive of feel ings whicli we do not wish lo experience again after staggering around some distance he fell on the inside baltimore sun humorous illustration a picture has been gotten up representing old zac with a huge wine glass in his hand with capt bragg pouring liberally inlo it from a bottle labelled madeira out of gen taylor's mouth proceeds a scroll on which is written â€” " a little more grape capt bragg ' blood moii'i a correspondent ofthe journal of commeice writing from mex ico says that gen scott has taken lhe guerilla business in hand " by his order every murder that the mexicans may com mit takes 8300 out of the nearest alcade's pocket although this may be rather hard on thf alcades it will induce them to ex ert their influence of which they possess some as a preventive of the evil adversity does not take from ns our true friends it only disperses those who pretended to be so an int-tdent op the battle n bl'bi after the batile i was ordered Â«! j een mpn to escort major ss wtthaflagoftrucetosa-ita anna when we arrived within about a hundred yards ot a regiment of liners which seemed to be the rear guard we halted major ttliss was blindfolded and conducted to santa anna on the departure ofthe major a platoon of lancers were ordered from lhe regiment and took post facing mv platoon and within ten steps of me the lieut enant in command dismounted his men did the same he was a fat good-look ing fellow ; wore a son of a nek coat neatly trimmed with lace and seemed qmte pompous as he dismounted he ban ned bis bridle rein to his orderlv and com menced strutting in front of his platoon m a very haughty manner presently he called bis orderly who handed from a pocket ib the side of his saddle a bottle from which he took a drink without sav ing a won to me much to mv astonish ment and commenced strutting as before 1 just then recollected 1 had in my holster a small bottle of whiskey and that it would not do to he outdone by this mexican : so i handed my rein to the right ti|e 0f my platoon and commenced playing the pea cock in front of my men in a lew min utes i halted short and ordered mv bu gler to hand me the bottle out of mv bols ter and took a drink curled my mustache and continued peacocking it as soon as my mexican friend saw tne imitating movements be walked laster â€” i increas ed my pace be halted and took a drink ; 1 lnhed and took a drink thus we per formed for some time until 1 actually blulled him off for he walked to lhe rear oi his platoon when 1 halted and sat down on the grass moorish ladies major xoah the veteran quill driver of the _\. v messenger gives the following rich reminiscence of his residence in al giers -. w hen in tunis i found myself in love with a handsome mussulman lady who lived on the opposite side of the street scarcely ten feet wide and who would draw aside the silken curtains from the iron bars of her window when unobserv ed to converse with me in lingua fran ca 1 talked of love â€” like all young fel lows of twenty-one â€” with an irrepressi ble ardor no ! no ! sidi said she â– if we were detected it would be nothing for you â€” you would only lose your head but j should have my luce unveiled be made to ride backwards on a mule tied in a sack and thrown into the sea my ardor fell like a barometer in a squall ; and the jittle value she bestowed on my head â€” contrasted with her disgrace did not increase my affection she said what was true it is the inevitable punish ment of being delected in an intrigue with these barbarians lt is rather dangerous then-fore to inquire of a man after his wife's health this wretched life how ever ol the female of barbary creates a teelingol melancholy and makesher prone to the tender passion this melancholy never leaves ber she seldom smiles her husband takes her to his country house has music dancing and festivities to en liven her â€” she is still the same taciturn and melancholy creature we sometimes j.j.y an othcrvi ise hand some woman who has unweildy propor tions and give way for l;rr in the omnibus reluctantly but in barbary she would cany oil the palm tin more fatness the greater beauty as a wife â€” and therefore tender mothers begin at nn early age lo fatten their daughters they allow them very little exercise compel them to eat very rich substances little paste balls dip ped in oil and every kind of food calcu lated to produce obesity tin result is that the lady who requires a camel tocar ry her is the first on the li-t let a pa cha with three tails walk down through a lineol christian aud mussulman beauties be will pass by with indiflcrence the light graceful and sylphlike forms which with us are so attractive and s*op with admi ration in front of a lady weighing some three iiandred pounds smack his lips and exclaim ' met lulu esseri this is rich a millionaire in paris â€” immense wealth the xew york impress gives tbe following statement in relation to lhe wed known war quis daligre who died at paris lately in the 83 j year of his age from his large in vestments in this countiy bis death has caused ij'iite a stir in wall street it appears that some eight or ten years ago the marquis deposited i the new york life insurance the faimer trust and ohio trust nearly a hundred thousand dollars each and took out an annuity during his life irom which he realized the following sums annually viz : from the n t life ins & trust 11,600 â– â€¢ â– â€¢ farmer trust 13.600 " " ohio trust o.ooo " â€¢* pennsylvania an^pjty 10.100 Â« Â» gerard life - 600 849,200 one half ol this sum amounting to nfl^rly fifty thousand dollars in all he has received se mi-annuallv and lhe conditions were thai at his decea.-e the whole sum originally paid shall revert to the companies tbe companies are at his deceased relieved n..t only from lhe an nual payment of a large sum bul have real.z ed a great profit the farmer's i ru-t have after calculating interest received i weniy-fiw ihonsand dollar be new yo.k life and m forty-six ihousaiui dollars and other p*Â»m in proportion the marqu.s was a man ofn i.l hia inc lie as owr a mil mense wealth ih "" " â– lion of franrs annually he leaves over sixty i u'.n'-s in real estate ; and he bulk â€ž? h-mnie to a grandchild only n.neteen l,(ll,oid he lived by rule and ea and znk by weight and measure and regula led ksconduc-by the nicest exactaess ii , cula-.d to live till be was a hundred and h v nd it he had would probably have bro ke-.-hecoinpanies that had ranted be an lies wealth is power